Genetics and Environmental Business Week

IMPAC Medical Systems, Inc. - Companies collaborate on DICOM-RT interfaces for oncology-based products

Influenza - APIC calls on healthcare facilities to improve flu-shot rates among workers

Johns Hopkins Medical Institutions - Scientists link gene family mutation to colon cancer

Kalorama Information - Pharmacogenetics predicted to lead molecular diagnostic segment growth

Lynx Therapeutics, Inc. - Company to deploy MPSS for the characterization of genomic changes in cancer

M.D. Anderson Cancer Center - Silenced tazarotene-induced gene 1 negates retinoic acid responsiveness

Mayo Clinic - Maternal chimeric T cells underlies juvenile dermatomyositis

Memorial Sloan-Kettering Cancer Center - Loss of tumor suppressor causes mitotic failure in human somatic cells

N.N. Blokhin Cancer Research Center - Hepatocellular carcinoma progression associates with down-regulated HNF

Nagasaki University - Polio model through mucosal infection in transgenic mice developed

Nat. Inst. of Allergy and Infectious Diseases - Small study shows weekly cycles of anti-HIV drugs successful

Nat. Inst. of Child Health and Human Development - New gene discovery may lead to prenatal test for disease

Nicotine Addiction - Blue Cross shows reduction in smoking among members in Minnesota

Northwestern University - Novel estrogen receptor binding protein isolated

Okayama University - Obesity decreases slightly in Japanese boys from 1991 through 2002

ParAllele BioScience - National Cancer Institute provided with early access to SNP genotyping platform

Royal Infirmary of Edinburgh - Women with persistent type specific human papillomavirus risk cervical cancer

Salk Institute for Biological Studies - DNA microarray analysis helps map hippocampal regions

Technion Israel Institute of Technology - Recombinant antibody fragments fight cancer cell drug resistance

Tel Aviv University - Bax ablation ameliorates murine experimental autoimmune encephalomyelitis

Tufts University - Different signaling pathways involved in pathogenesis of CML and EMS

U.S. Genomics - U.S. Department of Homeland Security awards $7.5M biodefense contract

U.S. National Institutes of Health - Paroxetine retards disease onset in huntingtin mutant mice

UNESP, Sao Jose do Rio Preto - Human papillomavirus is a not a causative agent of head and neck cancer

Univ. of California, San Francisco - CFTR inhibitor produces cystic fibrosis-like secretions in airways

Univ. of North Carolina at Chapel Hill - Study may predict recurrence of head and neck cancer

University Klinikum Aachen - Proinflammatory phenotype in niSMCs result in increased leukocyte recruitment

University of Alberta - Genetically modified Sertoli cells survive allogeneic transplantation

University of California, Berkeley - Roles of TCR and Notch signaling in positive selection clarified

University of Heidelberg - Genetic alterations within DR4 gene may be implicated in osteosarcoma formation

University of Minnesota -  Cryptosporidium parvum genome completely sequenced

University of Munich - Autoimmune regulator gene mutations not linked to pathogenesis

University of Tokyo - Novel protein inhibits TIFA activity

University of Tubingen - IRP2 gene mutations not associated with Parkinson disease

University of the Mediterranean - Thymocyte-intrinsic genetic factors regulate CD8 T-cell lineage commitment

Weizmann Institute of Science - Anti-inflammatory mechanics of 1,25-dihydroxyvitamin D3 clarified

William Wold, MD - Research indicates virus may destroy cancerous cells in lung

Yale University - HPV E6 gene repression initiates p53-dependent demise of cancer cells

Yale University - Nogo-B gene transfer rescues vessels from abnormal remodeling